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Engaging in purposeful, meaningful and strategic conversations with children can directly support children’s language comprehension, an important component of reading.
Researchers with expertise in parent-child relationships and child development offer 5 tips about how parents or caregivers can find a balance between children’s structured and unstructured time.
A project involving prisoners coming together to write a book for their children in less than a week has had encouraging results.
Policymakers, tech companies and schools should all be part of conversations about how our society is responsible for the new realities of tech in the home after COVID-19 lockdowns.
All brothers and sisters have tensions or disagreements from time to time as they jockey for position in the family. But when one sibling victimizes another, there can be serious and ongoing harms.
During adolescence the brain experiences two opposing tendencies: its capacity for control is not fully developed but the reward system is very active.
Parents and caregivers are vital partners in education, and together, educators and families can ease back-to-school jitters and help make this an exciting and positive transition for children.
Making daily time to connect with their children is an important way of nurturing family experiences and relationships and to find restoration.
When you prepare to talk about end-of-life decisions and the legacy you want to leave behind, try thinking about them as gifts you bestow to family and friends.
In tough conversations, show your respect for loved ones’ autonomy and dignity.
As teens forge their post-pandemic identities, let’s afford them the ‘dignity of risk,’ in their whole lives including their sexualities.
Disputes can seem to threaten us and what we stand for morally.
Growing core coping skills isn’t just a matter of learning not to be triggered by children’s strong feelings; it’s also about creating positive meaningful activities that promote mutual bonding.
Art can be a way to promote and support mental health in children, and understanding children’s experiences through the pandemic as seen through children’s art may help support them into the future.
Video calls are not simply “screen time” for little kids. They offer an important opportunity for socialisation.
While coronavirus restrictions are easing, you may still be feeling a strain on your relationship. This crisis has thrown a variety of challenges at couples.
The geographical proximity of grandmothers may have an effect on the number of children their daughters produce.
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Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Senior Research Associate, UNSW; Adjunct Research Fellow, MARCS Institute BabyLab, Western Sydney University
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PhD student, Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Faculty of Education;, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Associate Member, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of Childhood Anxiety and Regulation of Emotions (C.A.R.E.) Research Group, McGill University
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, York University, Canada
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Professor in Linguistics, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University
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Profesora Titular de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Investigadora del Laboratorio de Estudios sobre Convivencia y Prevención de la Violencia (LAECOVI), Universidad de Córdoba
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, Boston University
